How to Use living in a Sentence

living

1 of 2 adjective

• I was taught to respect all living things.
• It was the first time I had ever seen a living, breathing bear in the wild.
• He's one of our greatest living authors.
• His aunt is his closest living relative.
• Spousal benefits can only be paid on the record of a living spouse.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• The Army will pay for the reinterment of the remains and the return of the deceased to the closest living relatives.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 4 June 2023
• The species, all new to science, include those that are both living and extinct.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Jan. 2022
• Darlene had to crawl into her living-room area and stay crouched because of the caving walls.
  — AZCentral.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• The living descendants range in age from 1 year old to 85 years old, according to the researchers.
  — NBC News, 14 July 2021
• Some of the fossils found on Mars thus far could be made up of non-living processes, researchers say.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Nov. 2021
• Hominins are any living or extinct species along the human branch after the LCA.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2019
• Housing is still the largest living expense for most retirees.
  — Steve Vernon, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• Elephants are the largest living land animals on Earth.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Many shelf-type fungi appeared on both living and dead trees.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2021
• The artist — not just any artist but perhaps America’s most famous living artist — wrote to the teenager this April.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
• There is no human being on earth that has murdered more living things than the Caucasian.
  — Fox News, 13 Mar. 2018
• The oral version contains the live poliovirus, while the shot, administered in the leg or arm, has various non-living parts of the virus in it.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
• People who study this sort of thing for a living differ on how fans can affect games and who, in fact, is affected the most.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2021
• Context is key for signs of life—scientists must be able to rule out non-living sources of the same life-like chemicals.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
• The finished basement offers even more living space with a large rec room with bar, plus a home office and a laundry room.
  — cleveland, 23 Apr. 2021
• These workers may find a preferable price in co-living spaces.
  — Steve Satoru Naito, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• This was the first college football game played at SoFi Stadium and the first bowl to be named after a living figure.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2021
• Whales, redwood trees, and elephants are not the largest living organism.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
• Guides will sometimes be stuck for a week or more living, eating and working on the river alongside clients.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• The lower level adds more living space with a rec room with wet bar, plus a workout area, bedroom and full bathroom.
  — cleveland, 15 Apr. 2022
• Shop for handcrafted gifts made by people from around the world who are trying to break the cycle of poverty, and earn a fair and living wage for their craft.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• But textiles are the unsung heroes of most living spaces.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2022
• In 2016, the company launched WeLive, a co-living concept that never scaled.
  — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 14 Oct. 2020
• An aspen stem in Pando, one of the world's oldest living organisms.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• The finished basement adds more living space including a media room with a wine fridge, plus a bonus room with Murphy bed.
  — cleveland, 9 July 2021

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living

2 of 2 noun

• The world belongs to the living.
• It's summertime, and the living is easy.
• Small-space living has led me to a ton of nifty home hacks.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• The musicians who — to cite the name of Huey Lewis & The News’ 1982 hit — are still workin’ for a living?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• The all-white Art Barn serves as a living and dining area.
  — Anita Sarsidi, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2023
• The series chronicles the clash of old and new money — and old and new ways of living — in New York City in the late 1800s.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
• At the time, there was no montage scene of life and childhood and living and joy and sadness.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• One of the greatest living lutenists, North will play Italian pieces with La Morra from the 15th and 16th centuries.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• If pursued in the right way, your vocation could add years of healthy living.
  — Matt Fuchs, Fortune Well, 14 May 2023
• Even though Wilson spent the least amount of time of the three living in the state, his mother, Tiffany Weatherton, says her son still claims the 49th state.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• That’s low, compared to the rate of tooth-chipping among living primates, which ranges from 4 to 40 percent.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• That led to life on the streets, the military, then shelter living and a downward spiral.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Gavin Cater The great room, and kitchen living and bar area are connected in an open floor plan with vaulted gable roofs.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• But as the cost of living mounts, and more cuts are made to public services, the time may well soon come when the optics of so many homes calls for a rethink.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2023
• They're being crushed by the high cost of living, by inflation and Bidenomics.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
• Already struggling, the region has been hit hard by the severe cost of living crisis that is now impacting the whole of the UK.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2023
• That father became the bottom layer of Rocky Balboa: the fact that Rocky worked for a loan shark and broke people’s arms for a living.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• The health care sector is in crisis, and the rising cost of living has been felt more acutely there than anywhere else in the United Kingdom.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• In the meantime, Porter has created a nonprofit and raised funds to help the refugees with living expenses.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The promise of easy living in Mediterranean weather has faded in the shadow of a housing crisis.
  — Corina Knoll, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• There's nothing like natural stone to add living, breathing soul to your home.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 2 May 2023
• On the short ends of the second-story living area, double-height windows serve as a pleasant backdrop for seating.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2024
• Gorillaz is very much a living, breathing band, with songs, longevity and plenty of ideas.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2023
• Not to worry: The Glamour team literally shops for a living.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 20 July 2023
• The weather year-round is relatively warm, there’s a lower cost of living and there’s not any state income tax.
  — James Barrett, ELLE Decor, 5 Apr. 2023
• His work is formed not through some Olympian act of creation but through the messy business of living, which deafness renders visible.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
• In this rural part of the country, nature is treasured and many make their living from an economy that depends on tourism.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• Radius Outfitters makes overlanding gear that's designed to hold up to the abuse of living (and repairing) on the road.
  — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
• However, the city's cost of living is higher than both the state and national averages.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• Fishermen complained that unemployment in the city was driving more people to eke out a living on the Red Sea.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024